The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts (Brussels), ZKM|Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, the ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Centre, present the exhibition “Facing the Future: Art in Europe 1945–1968” (07.03 – 21.05.2017). This project, unique in its scale, has lasted for two years and has been showcased in Brussels and Karlsruhe. Despite alterations of the display from one exhibition to another, the general concept remains the same: it is a perspective outlook on the post-war art and culture of East and West Europe seen as integral artistic scenery, created by artists of different countries no matter their political commitment.

The exhibition “Facing the future: Art in Europe 1945–1968” features nearly 200 artworks from 18 European countries and the Russian Federation (i.e. former Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic). The museums which provided artworks for the exhibition include Tate Modern (London), Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou (Paris), Nationalgalerie (Berlin), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Museée national Picasso (Paris), Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid), “ZERO” Foundation (Dusseldorf), Fondation Beyeler (Riehen / Basel), MUMOK (Vienna), Museum of Independents (Warsaw), Museum Tinguely (Basel), Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Budapest), Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Olomouc Museum of Art (Czech Republic), Kunsthalle Emden (Germany) and others.

At the exhibition was shown [Still life with a Head and Paraffin Lamp], 1954, an oil painting by Andrzej Wroblewski.

Curators: Dr. Eckhart Gillen, independent Curator (Berlin), Prof. Peter Weibel, Head of ZKM|Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Danila Bulatov (The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts).

The exhibition is accompanied by an educational festival Thaw: Facing the Future organized in cooperation with partner museums.

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07.03 – 21.05.2017
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
www.arts-museum.ru
12 Volkhonka
Moscow, Russia

More information about the international project Trauma & Revival

Based on information from the organizer.